Springtown’s most wanted

MUNICIPAL MATTERS

Often in city operations the most unexpected problems are the ones which cause the most disruption. In fact, I am sure that is the case most of the time and for most industries, but in this week’s saga of the unanticipated, we will discuss dealing with beavers and bees.

In what I can only assume is an effort to compete with our local high school mascot, the Porcupine, there’s a beaver with a serious attitude problem — and it’s turned Springtown Park into its personal lumberyard. Trees are being gnawed straight in half overnight, their trunks left scattered like toothpicks in the mud. And the culprit? One determined, very mischievous beaver.